If you're following along at home...at 35:15 when "Janet" is "threatening" to break off their engagement & the guy who's supposed to be the real "captain" ("birdguy") is telling her to "give back the ring" (messing w/her), etc. & then "Dick" says "now chief..." the bird fancying cop of whatever rank says "now, hold on captain..." Well, then, later on (I didn't notice this until that phony "scientist" comes in to see if he can "help out" w/the "monster" thing), "Birdman" refers to him (Dick) as "Lt. Craig". What happened? Did Dick get demoted all of a sudden & we didn't see? Or was it a case of Ed Wood screwing up the 2 cops' ranks (the bird guy is supposed to be captain, not chief (unless he was referring to him as chief in a colloquial way) & Dick is "Lt. Craig". LOL...love those gaffes; especially when they're so blatant!!

So it looks like the YouTube video is gone, but Shout! is streaming it on its website right now. I don't know if they want links to the site or not, but I'm watching it there right now. I'm not sure how Shout works.

1. The door-to-door salesman's real problem is that he couldn't bring his product to even the fifth house on the street. It was only a four-door car.

2. Lobo takes several shots point blank and keeps advancing. When he turns around, there's no sign of a bullet hole. What's he made of?

3. Then Dr. I Can't Believe It's Not Bela Legosi™ drops a glass jar on his head, and he's down for the count?

4. That is one massive, fiery mushroom cloud. You'd need a multi-megaton explosion to get a cloud like that. How does it not wipe out everything within a mile? And how do you get an octopus of unusual size (though there are larger squid) to blow up like that?

Bela was such a pimp. He actually made this movie interesting, without his monologues this movie would be completely unwatchable. Such an amazing actor in that old-school over the top kinda way. although only Ed Wood could ruin his hypno-stare. It's called make-up and lighting, Ed.

Is it just me, or does anyone else find Dick kinda hot, especially with the ripped shirt on? I mean, he does have a nice body and he does resemble Johnny Depp. Maybe I've just watched too many bad movies.

I've been searching for a full-time job for the last couple of years (why, oh why did I decide to become an academic??), and I've now decided that when I get a job, I'm going to announce it to everyone by posting the Hired! musical everywhere.

Shame about the video capture. It's a bit like watching a broken satellite broadcast circa 1997, where the signal stops at random intervals for a minute at a time. So at least there's the nostalgia value.

As a kid, I lost my willing suspension of disbelief in the first laboratory scene. The abducted hunter has a colander or salad bowl on his head, secured by chin strap. Extremely cheap prop. Immediately after that disappointment , it was plain that laboratory stone walls were painted on. Recovered enough to enjoy the film.

While standing too close to a nuclear explosion seems odd, the US military did deploy troops near nuclear bomb tests. The idea was to get troops over their fears about fighting on a radio-active battlefield . The Atomic Veterans organization is a good source for further information.

I love the first link "This video does not exist". I feel like some kind of sound effect like "dun dun dun" or "ree ree ree ree" should play after that because it's such a creepy way of saying there's no video.

I think this was Ed Wood's best movie. I know that sounds like damning it with faint praise, but it stands up nicely next to other sci fi cheapies of that era. The actors do a passable job with the material they're given (some of which is actually a little bit clever). Stock footage and recycled sets are used in a way that makes sense. There are even some interesting gender politics on display: on the surface, the movie tries to uphold the midcentury status quo, but the women come across as tough and clever, and it's the male lead who spends most of the third act in various states of helplessness and undress. I've watched it unriffed a few times and it's actually pretty entertaining on its own merits.

The short.. along with many other things I've seen/read/heard makes me wonder why ANYONE would be stupid enough to choose a living that is based on success of sales. You go to work all day and don't get paid because you didn't sell anything? F*** that!

Did anyone know the woman with the pencil in her hair that kept disappearing was the woman in Christmas vacation that sang the Star Spangled Banner? I am great with faces and swear I didn't even look that up but I still swear by it! She even acts the same after all those years...

Ed's one of my favorites, but Plan 9 would have been TOO easy. Personally I think they should have attacked "Night of the Ghouls". Little known and worse than can be imagined. Still, this was all worth it if only for HIRED: THE MUSICAL! Years later I still sing it! (Yep, and I get some weird looks for it too!)

Couldn't they have at least put somebody in that octopus suit to give it some movement? The ridiculous portrayal of the snake in the tree, the quicksand, the octopus, the boulder, the atomic explosion, Lobo, etc. was so bad it was entertaining and perfect for warming up to Manos.

Ok, so grandpa 'naps a lot' from Teenagers from Outer Space is Lieutenant Birdman! Also I was racking my brain for who the other cop reminded me of...Johnny the Boy from Mad Max! The kid Max chains to the burning car and hands a hack saw to...DEAD RINGER!